"Evergreen, here is fifteen taels, you order." Shopkeeper Lin took out a few ingots of silver and some broken silver from the counter.

Ning Changrong took it and looked at it, there was no problem. "Thank you, shopkeeper."

Shopkeeper Lin saw that there was no discoloration on the other party's face, and added: "Evergreen, although you brought more Chinese cabbage this time than last time, you also know that now that winter has passed, so the price may have dropped a little, and I also gave it to you according to the market price, and I definitely did not deliberately deduct your money." ”

Ning Changrong said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Lin, don't worry." I'm not an unknown person, and the price of vegetables this winter must be different at other times. ”

Shopkeeper Lin couldn't breathe a sigh of relief, and said happily: "Okay, then we'll clear the money." If there's any, feel free to pull it over. ”

Originally, he was still a little worried that Ning Changrong would think that he was deliberately lowering the price, so there was no need to say anything about the explanation he had thought of.

He likes to deal with people who understand this kind of thing, clean and crisp.

"Then I'll go first, Shopkeeper Lin."

When Ning Changrong turned around and was about to step out of the door, he was stopped by the other party again:

"Oops, I almost forgot to tell you something. Didn't you come back the other time to buy food? A few days ago, the grain shop was opened, and several houses opened the door together, if you want to buy it, you can go now. ”

Ning Changrong thanked the other party and left.

His family doesn't need to buy food. However, you can inquire about the price of food.

When Ning Changrong arrived at the grain store empty-handed, he found that there were many people buying grain at the door.

He was too lazy to squeeze, so he pulled a person who seemed to be in his forties next to him and asked, "Big brother, I don't know what the price of this grain is now?" ”

The man who was pulled said: "Two taels of silver and a bucket." ”

Ning Changrong's whole person was shocked.

"Why is it so expensive?"

Two taels of silver?!

If he's not mistaken, it's usually three or four dollars a bucket, right?

Good guys, that's almost tenfold!

"How not? That's the price after the price has been reduced! The day the store first opened, it sold for three taels of silver! No way, no matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it, what do you eat if you don't buy it? It's the same with the other stores, so you don't have to go to work, if you want to buy it, just line up here. ”

Ning Changrong withdrew from the crowd and bought some things needed at home before driving back in the ox cart.

It seems that in addition to preparing weapons to defend against the enemy, food is also indispensable at home.

The price of grain in several counties is almost identical, and he doesn't believe that there is no one behind it.

Ning Changrong is going to buy a few more acres of land and use them to grow food!

Hoard him for five years and ten years.

No one wants to strangle his family's neck!

Xiayuan Village.

"It's back, it's back! Let's see if it's Evergreen's car? ”

Lai Pozi squinted her eyes, and after seeing it clearly, she was surprised: "It's my evergreen nephew!" "But I'm finally back.

After dinner, they sat at the entrance of the village with a stool and waited.

Ning Changrong approached and found that there was a group of old men and women standing at the entrance of the village.

He hurriedly slowed down the speed of the ox cart, for fear of knocking these people out of the way.

As long as the black dot doesn't provoke it now, it won't kick people easily.

So when the men approached it, it just flicked its tail impatiently and didn't make any drastic movements.

Mrs. Han pulled her throat and asked, "Evergreen, how is it sold!?" Has it been sold? ”

Lai Pozi was on the side, looking into the car vigorously, but she didn't dare to get too close because of the black spots.

"It's all sold out, isn't it Evergreen?"

Ning Changrong waved his hand and asked everyone to let go, "It's sold out, don't worry, you just need to plant cabbage with peace of mind." ”

Ning Changrong knew what they were worried about, comforted everyone, and then drove the ox cart home.

Wang Xiujuan left some dinner for her son, and at this time, the two were in Ning Qingxi's room together and began to tinker with things again.

After hearing the sound of Ning Changrong entering the door, Wang Xiujuan only said, "The rice is in the pot in the kitchen, you go and eat it yourself." ”

Ning Changrong smiled helplessly, and only after he went to the kitchen to eat his fill, did he knock on the door and enter Ning Qingxi's room.

The grandfather and grandson were sitting cross-legged on the ground, surrounded by the three largest jars, as well as some bottles and jars and yellow paper, which had been cut into squares and squares.

Next to Ning Qingxi's right hand is the test product that has been made. With the covenant is some slender long "rope".

Ning Changrong was not too dirty, and sat directly next to them.

picked up the small paper bag next to Ning Qingxi, and opened a jar that was tightly stuffed to take a look.

"Girl, are these done?"

Ning Qingxi's hands and feet kept filling gunpowder. At this time, it was getting dark, and they couldn't light the fire of this thing, so she was going to put it away in a while.

"yes, but we'll have to experiment and see what we need to improve."

The production of gunpowder is not as simple as one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal.

This scale is not very accurate, and the ratio will directly affect the power of gunpowder. It took her many experiments to find the best proportions.

"Okay, since it's done, let's sneak up on the mountain tomorrow morning and give it a try." If he wasn't afraid of danger at night, he would have wanted to try it now.

The next day, the genius was slightly bright.

The three of them carried a nest head and secretly went up the mountain.

Ning Changrong walked in the front, and when he walked to the deep mountains, he held the fire gun in his hand.

Ning Qingxi also looked around with a crossbow.

They also brought a small piece of tiger dung bought from the hunter's house, which smelled like it drove away most of the animals.

There were no large animal attacks along the way.

The three of them walked to the deep uninhabited mountains.

"Girl, here it is. Even if there was any movement, we would have been gone by the time we came to check it out. ”

Ning Qingxi nodded, holding a jar in his hand with a long lead on it.

Ning Changrong didn't dare to let his daughter try, took the gunpowder canister, let the grandparents and grandchildren hide, and he used the fire breaker he was carrying on his body to ignite the fuse of the gunpowder jar.

For the sake of safety, the gunpowder lead left by Ning Qingxi was very long, and Ning Changrong did not burn out after lighting the lead and running back.

The three of them covered their ears and hid behind a rock to look ahead.

After a while, it was still fried, and that was when Ning Changrong wanted to ask if it was a dumb fire.

"Bang!"

A loud bang came from ahead!

There was also some slight jolting.

Ning Changrong and the three of them hid behind the stone with their heads in their hands, checking each other to confirm that they were not injured before going up to check.

Ning Qingxi looked at the pit left by the black powder jar and was not satisfied.

Not powerful enough.

Ning Qingxi took out another paper bag of gunpowder and gave it to Ning Changrong.

"Dad, let's try this again."

After Ning Changrong lit the fuse, the three of them hid back in place.

"Bang!"

This time the explosion was even more intense than the last one!

Ning Changrong covered his ears and felt that his ears were a little buzzing. It took a lot of relief to pluck my ears with my fingers.

Ning Qingxi stepped forward to check the explosion effect, and sure enough, the proportion was only slightly changed, and the explosion effect was significantly enhanced.

The movement of the three of them on the mountain became louder and louder, and at first the people below the mountain could only hear faint sounds, but then they had reached a deafening place!

Many old people knelt on their knees and kept bowing to the mountain.

"The mountain god is angry! The mountain god is angry! Kneel down and apologize to the mountain god! ”

"The mountain god has appeared! Please bless our village! ”

"I hope that the mountain god will bless our village with good weather this year!"

"The mountain god blesses my daughter-in-law and gives birth to a big fat boy for me!"

Village Chief Ning knelt on his knees and muttered in his mouth, "Please bless our village with good weather and peace this year!" ”